Locally engineered hydraulic, lubrication and pneumatic solutions BMG’s Regional Service Centres (RSC), which are situated in major cities and commercial nodes throughout the country, play a critical role by providing engineered hydraulics and pneumatics services to optimise productivity for local industries. “T hrough the consolidation of BMG’s regional workshop facilities and field services into centralised hubs, dedicated
RSCs are able to assist customers who are faced with a lack of engineering expertise, costly machinery repairs and unnecessary downtime periods,” explains Daniel Feiteira, BMG’s Business Unit Manager for high pres- sure fluid technology. “Our specialist service centres with assem- bly, repair, maintenance and support opera- tions, offer combined technical expertise and value-added product solutions. These dedicated service centres, which focus on core BMG divi- sions – including hydraulics, lubrication and pneumatics, drives, gaskets and materials han- dling – operate closely with dedicated branches to meet each customer’s specific requirements. “Advantages for customers include im- proved service, repair and delivery efficiencies, centralised technical support and easy accessi- bility to BMG’s comprehensive range of quality branded engineering components,” says Feiteira. An important focus of BMG RSC’s is on fluid technology services that integrate quality branded components, full turnkey engineering and contamination control, as well as test and repair services to ensure optimum performance and extended service life of all Fluid Technology hydraulic and Lubrication systems. “BMG is able to assist with design, manufac- ture and assembly of all hydraulic, lubrication and pneumatic systems, whether it is for a workshop, process upgrade or even a hydrau- lic system for an entire new plant,” he tells MechChem Africa . “Our highly-experienced teams work in consultation with customers to ensure the most efficient solution – from small multi-purpose power packs to large power packs for mining and industrial applications,” he says adding that key industries in the region include sugar, agriculture, shipping, mining, automotive, power and petrochemical plants, manufacturing and general engineering.” BMG follows stringent ISO accredited pro- cedures to ensure the integrity of every hydrau- lic system. Each repaired component is assessed by the company’s testing facility and certificates are issued as assurance that equipment has passed the strictest performance standards. These products include variable and fixed
A BMG hydraulic control unit for a furnace. BMG is able to assist with design, manufacture and assembly of all hydraulic, lubrication and pneumatic systems, whether it is for a workshop, process upgrade or even a hydraulic system for an entire new plant.
displacement pumps, industrial and mobile valves, low and high-speed motors, as well as cylinders and accumulators. A critical element in any hydraulic system is contamination control. BMG’s systemic ap- proach to fluid analysis emphasises the benefits of a system that is maintained through the use of high-quality filtration equipment, coupled with a regular sampling and testing programme. An efficient fluid analysis service ensures improved performance, extended life of components and reduced maintenance costs. The company’s service to the hydraulics sector includes a mobile workshop that is fit - ted with tools, equipment and quality branded spares to enable tasks such as troubleshooting, on-site repairs, installations, commissioning and system flushing to be efficiently performed. This service also incorporates on-site fluid analysis and hose and pipe assembly. Hydraulic power unit (HPU) and cylinder systems The BMG Hydraulics Engineering team has
recently designed an HPU that will be used on a newly built furnace in Poland. With 10 pages of specifications and requirements presented by the customer, the challenging design process needed the engineering team to consider closely the unique hydraulic design, components and operational parameters for the system. Design commenced with the decision be- tween one HPU power pack for each of the two furnaces, or a shared system that could service both furnaces, which are situated 15 m apart. This hydraulic system, which forms part of a 2.0 MW DC Furnace, controls the hydraulic cylinders that raise the furnace’s baked graphite electrodes into position and then lowers them into the furnace. Two cylinders work together to steadily lower the electrodes, which are being consumed in the furnace, while new lengths of electrode are added from the top using a crane. A clamping cylinder pressurises the elec- trode, while a lifting cylinder raises the new electrodes via an arm. Once the electrode is in place, the lifting cylinder steadily lowers under
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